EP3479615B1

EP3479615B1 - Method and device for configuring semi-persistent scheduling

Info

Publication number: EP3479615B1
Application number: EP18794355.0A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Jinhua Liu; Rui Fan
Original assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
Current assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
Priority date: 2017-05-05
Filing date: 2018-04-20
Publication date: 2022-01-19
Anticipated expiration: 2038-04-20
Also published as: AR111772A1; EP3479615A4; CN109565676A; US11576189B2; US20210282156A1; US20190281606A1; EP3479615A1; CN109565676B; US11026238B2; WO2018201917A1

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure generally relates to the field of communications, to a method and device for configuring semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), and in particular, to a method in network device, a network device and a computer program product.

BACKGROUND

This section introduces aspects that may facilitate better understanding of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the statements of this section are to be read in this light and are not to be understood as admissions about what is in the prior art or what is not in the prior art.
Semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) is one important feature to preconfigure granted resources for a terminal device (such as user equipment, UE) so that the UE can transmit data with the granted resources, or a network device can transmit data to the UE in pre-allocated resources.
There are some benefits for SPS, for example, overhead of control channel is saved or decreased. Since resources for multiple transmission opportunities are pre-allocated for the UE, there is no need to transmit physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to schedule data transmissions after SPS configuration is activated. It can also save physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for scheduling request (SR) transmission since SR transmission is not needed if SPS configuration is activated.
For another example, latency for data transmission in uplink (UL) is reduced or decreased. The considerable delay for SR TX, grant reception and UL data transmission for UL with dynamic scheduling is saved when UL data is transmitted with pre-allocated resources according to the activated SPS configuration.
Document CN 106 465 391 A1 (and its post-published patent family member EP 3 499 995 A1 ) discloses a resource scheduling method, a scheduler, a base station, a terminal and a system belonging to the technical field of wireless communication. The method is applied to a scheduler of a base station and includes: receiving SPS configuration information sent by an RRC layer, the SPS configuration information including a period of SPS, the period of the SPS being used for indicating a time interval between two adjacent scheduling sub frames, determining an sTTI resource activated in a target scheduling subframe according to the SPS configuration information and reference information, providing an activation parameter to a physical layer according to the sTTI resource activated in the target scheduling subframe so that the physical layer generates an activation notification containing the activation parameter and send it to the terminal.
Document "Introduction of SPS into short TTI", Huawei et al, 3GPP draft, R2-1703645, discloses an evaluation of a SPS mechanism in combination with short TTI. The following proposals were made. Proposal 1: Support SPS mechanism in short TTI. Proposal 2: The sTTI structure and sTTI_Offset should be considered when configuring SPS occasions based on sTTI. Proposal 3: Use a unified formula to calculate SPS occasions for both legacy SPS and sTTI based SPS. Proposal 4: Use a unified formula to calculate HARQ Process ID for both legacy SPS and sTTI based SPS. Proposal 5: Legacy TTI and sTTI based SPS should not be configured simultaneously for one MAC entity.
Document "SPS operation on sTTI", Ericsson, 3GPP draft, R2-1701610, discloses an evaluation on SPS operation of sTTIs. The following proposals were made. Proposal 1: Standardize solution to further reduce UL access latency in sTTI operation by combining sTTI operation with Rel-14 SPS enhancement. Proposal 2: SPS operation follows legacy subframe-based intervals. Additionally, a sub-pattern is configured defining which sub-subframes (sTTIs) within an UL/DL SPS subframe are considered granted/assigned SPS-sTTIs. Proposal 3: Reuse legacy PDCCH and defined DCIs for SPS commands (activation/release). Proposal 4: In DL/UL SPS with asynchronous HARQ, the HARQ process ID is derived from sTTI-number. Proposal 5: In DL SPS, UE attempts decoding of sPDCCH for potential overriding DL DCI. If no sPDCCH is found, UE expects transmission according to configured SPS assignment. Proposal 6: In UL SPS, following legacy operation, UE transmits new data (if available) on configured SPS resources, unless sPDCCH is received scheduling an adaptive/asynchronous retransmission.
Document EP 3 567 966 A1 constitutes prior art under Article 54(3) EPC and discloses a semi-persistent scheduling method, a network device, and a terminal device, where the method includes: determining, by a network device, a semi-persistent scheduling SPS configuration parameter, where the SPS configuration parameter includes an SPS period length, symbol information, and an SPS activation command, where the SPS activation command is used to indicate a system frame number and a sub-frame number of a first time-frequency resource available for sending or receiving SPS data, and the symbol information is used to indicate a location of a symbol that is in a sub-frame and that is occupied by the time-frequency resource for sending or receiving the SPS data, determining, by the network device based on the SPS period length, the symbol information, and the SPS activation command, resource locations of time-frequency resources available for sending or receiving the SPS data, and sending, by the network device, the SPS configuration parameter to a terminal device.

SUMMARY

However, it has been found that the current SPS configuration defined based on a subframe does not consider transmission duration or reception duration, such as a mini-slot and/or a slot, for new radio (NR). Although a network device and a terminal device can determine the same subframe which is used for SPS transmission, the network device and the terminal device don't know which slot or mini-slot within this subframe is used for SPS transmission.
Then there will be mismatch between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmissions occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe. The formulas and parameters to configure the SPS configurations should be improved to support SPS configuration with mini-slot/slot operation.
In order to solve at least part of the above problems, methods, apparatus, devices and computer programs are provided in the present disclosure. It may be appreciated that this embodiment of the present disclosure is not limited to a wireless system operating in NR network, but could be more widely applied to any application scenario where similar problems exist.
The embodiment of the present disclosure mainly aims at providing methods, devices and computer programs for controlling a transmission between a transmitter and a receiver, for example, in a shared frequency band. Either of the transmitter and the receiver could be, for example, a terminal device or a network device.
In general, the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a solution for configuring SPS. Information on transmission duration or reception duration (it may be referred to as information on transmission or reception opportunity) is included in SPS configuration when the network device configures the SPS for the terminal device.
According to the present disclosure, a method in a network device, a network device and a computer program product according to the independent claims are provided. Developments are set forth in the dependent claims.
According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in SPS configuration when the network device configures the SPS for the terminal device. Therefore, SPS operation with multiple duration (such as slot and/or mini-slot) is enabled and there may be match between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmissions occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other aspects, features, and benefits of various embodiments of the disclosure will become more fully apparent, by way of example, from the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals or letters are used to designate like or equivalent elements. In the following, "examples" pertain to principles underlying the claimed subject-matter and/or being useful for understanding the claimed subject-matter, "embodiments" pertain to the claimed subject-matter within the claim scope and "unclaimed examples" pertain to implementations not comprised in the claim scope.
The drawings are illustrated for facilitating better understanding of the embodiments of the disclosure and not necessarily drawn to scale, in which:

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram which shows a wireless communication network according to an example;
Fig. 2 is a flowchart which shows a method 200 for configuring SPS;
Fig. 3 is a diagram which shows a method 300 for configuring SPS;
Fig. 4 is a diagram which shows a method 400 for configuring SPS;
Fig. 5 is a diagram which shows slot indexing within a radio frame in accordance with an example;
Fig. 6 is a diagram which shows slot indexing within a subframe in accordance with an example;
Fig. 7 is a flowchart which shows a method 700 for configuring SPS in accordance with an unclaimed example;
FIG. 8 shows a block diagram of an apparatus 800 for configuring SPS in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 9 shows a block diagram of an apparatus 900 for configuring SPS in accordance with an unclaimed example;
Fig. 10 is a simplified block diagram of a device that is suitable for implementing the embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present disclosure will now be discussed with reference to several examples and the embodiment. It should be understood that these examples and the embodiment are discussed only for the purpose of enabling those skilled persons in the art to better understand and thus implement the present disclosure, rather than suggesting any limitations on the scope of the present disclosure.
As used herein, the term "wireless communication network" refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), LTE, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA), and so on. Furthermore, the communications between a terminal device and a network device in the wireless communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Long Term Evolution (LTE), and/or other suitable, and/or other suitable the first generation (1G), the second generation (2G), 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G), the fourth generation (4G), 4.5G, the future fifth generation (5G) communication protocols, wireless local area network (WLAN) standards, such as the IEEE 802.11 standards; and/or any other appropriate wireless communication standard, such as the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax), Bluetooth^™, and/or ZigBee^™ standards, and/or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future.
The term "network device" refers to a device in a wireless communication network via which a terminal device accesses the network and receives services therefrom. The network device refers a base station (BS), an access point (AP), or any other suitable device in the wireless communication network. The BS may be, for example, a node B (NodeB or NB), an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB), or gNB, a Remote Radio Unit (RRU), a radio header (RH), a remote radio head (RRH), a relay, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, and so forth. Yet further examples of the network device may include multi-standard radio (MSR) radio equipment such as MSR BSs, network controllers such as radio network controllers (RNCs) or base station controllers (BSCs), base transceiver stations (BTSs), transmission points, transmission nodes. More generally, however, the network device may represent any suitable device (or group of devices) capable, configured, arranged, and/or operable to enable and/or provide a terminal device access to the wireless communication network or to provide some service to a terminal device that has accessed the wireless communication network.
The term "terminal device" refers to any end device that can access a wireless communication network and receive services therefrom. By way of example and not limitation, the terminal device refers to a mobile terminal, user equipment (UE), or other suitable devices. The UE may be, for example, a Subscriber Station (SS), a Portable Subscriber Station, a Mobile Station (MS), or an Access Terminal (AT). The terminal device may include, but not limited to, portable computers, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, voice over IP (VoIP) phones, wireless local loop phones, a tablet, a wearable device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), portable computers, desktop computer, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, wearable terminal devices, vehicle-mounted wireless terminal devices, wireless endpoints, mobile stations, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE), laptop-mounted equipment (LME), USB dongles, smart devices, wireless customer-premises equipment (CPE) and the like. In the following description, the terms "terminal device", "terminal", "user equipment" and "UE" may be used interchangeably. As one example, a terminal device may represent a UE configured for communication in accordance with one or more communication standards promulgated by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), such as 3GPP's GSM, UMTS, LTE, and/or 5G standards. As used herein, a "user equipment" or "UE" may not necessarily have a "user" in the sense of a human user who owns and/or operates the relevant device. In an example, a terminal device may be configured to transmit and/or receive information without direct human interaction. For instance, a terminal device may be designed to transmit information to a network on a predetermined schedule, when triggered by an internal or external event, or in response to requests from the wireless communication network. Instead, a UE may represent a device that is intended for sale to, or operation by, a human user but that may not initially be associated with a specific human user.
The terminal device may support device-to-device (D2D) communication, for example by implementing a 3GPP standard for sidelink communication, and may in this case be referred to as a D2D communication device.
As yet another example, in an Internet of Things (IOT) scenario, a terminal device may represent a machine or other device that performs monitoring and/or measurements, and transmits the results of such monitoring and/or measurements to another terminal device and/or network equipment. The terminal device may in this case be a machine-to-machine (M2M) device, which may in a 3GPP context be referred to as a machine-type communication (MTC) device. As one particular example, the terminal device may be a UE implementing the 3GPP narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) standard. Particular examples of such machines or devices are sensors, metering devices such as power meters, industrial machinery, or home or personal appliances, for example refrigerators, televisions, personal wearables such as watches etc. In other scenarios, a terminal device may represent a vehicle or other equipment that is capable of monitoring and/or reporting on its operational status or other functions associated with its operation.
As used herein, a downlink, DL transmission refers to a transmission from the network device to a terminal device, and an uplink, UL transmission refers to a transmission in an opposite direction.
Now some examples, unclaimed examples and the embodiment of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to the figures.
Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a wireless communication network 100 according to an example. As shown in Fig. 1, the wireless communication network 100 may include one or more network devices, for example network devices 101.
It will be appreciated that the network device 101 could also be in a form of gNB, Node B, eNB, BTS (Base Transceiver Station), and/or BSS (Base Station Subsystem), access point (AP) and the like. The network device 101 may provide radio connectivity to a set of terminal devices or UEs 102-1, 102-2, ..., 102-N (collectively referred to as "terminal device(s) 102) within its coverage, where N is a natural number.
Although network device 101 illustrated in the example wireless communication network may represent a device that includes a particular combination of hardware components, other examples may include network nodes with different combinations of components. It is to be understood that a network device may include any suitable combination of hardware and/or software needed to perform the tasks, features, functions and methods disclosed herein.
It is to be understood that the configuration of Fig. 1 is described merely for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation as to the scope of the present disclosure. Those skilled in the art would appreciate that the wireless communication network 100 may include any suitable number of terminal devices and/or network devices and may have other suitable configurations.
In technical document, such as 36.321-e20 Section 5.10, SPS configuration was specified for LTE in both UL and DL. For example, uplink semi-persistent scheduling interval semiPersistSchedIntervalUL and the number of empty transmissions before implicit release implicitReleaseAfter, if semi-persistent scheduling with semi-persistent scheduling cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) is enabled for the uplink. For another example, whether twoIntervalsConfig is enabled or disabled for uplink, only for time division duplexing (TDD). For another example, downlink semi-persistent scheduling interval semiPersistSchedIntervalDL and number of configured hybrid automation repeat request (HARQ) processes for semi-persistent scheduling numberOfConfSPS-Processes, if semi-persistent scheduling is enabled for the downlink.
Where, implicitReleaseAfter means the number of empty transmissions before implicit release; semiPersistSchedIntervalUL means the semi-persistent scheduling interval in uplink; semiPersistSchedIntervalDL means the semi-persistent scheduling interval in downlink; twoIntervalsConfig means the trigger of two-intervals-Semi-Persistent Scheduling in uplink; numberOfConfSPS-Processes means the number of configured HARQ processes for Semi-Persistent Scheduling.
To determine a transmission opportunity for data, in an example, DL transmission opportunity may be calculated. For example, after a Semi-Persistent downlink assignment is configured, media access control (MAC) entity may consider sequentially that the N^th assignment occurs in the subframe for which: (10 ^∗ SFN + subframe) = [(10 ^∗ SFN_{start time} + subframe_{start time})+ N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalDL] modulo 10240; where SFN_{start time} and subframe_{start time} are the system frame number (SFN) and subframe, respectively, at the time the configured downlink assignment were (re-)initialised.
In another example, UL transmission opportunity may be calculated. For example, after a Semi-Persistent Scheduling uplink grant is configured, the MAC entity may set the Subframe_Offset according to Table 7.4-1 if twoIntervalsConfig is enabled by upper layer; else may set Subframe_Offset to 0. The MAC entity may consider sequentially that the N^th grant occurs in the subframe for which: (10 ^∗ SFN + subframe) = [(10 ^∗ SFN_{start time} + subframe_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalUL + Subframe_Offset ^∗ (N modulo 2)] modulo 10240; where SFN_{start time} and subframe_{start time} are the SFN and subframe, respectively, at the time the configured uplink grant were (re-)initialised.
For NR, the subframe of 1ms duration may be defined similarly as LTE. Slot and mini-slots of shorter transmission duration were also agreed in NR by including less than such as 14 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a transmission and short OFDM symbols using larger sub-carrier spacing sub-carrier. For SPS configuration with slot/mini-slot, better operation granularity for resource allocation and lower latency can be achieved.
However, there will be mismatch between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmissions occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe. The formulas and parameters to configure the SPS configurations should be improved to support SPS configuration with mini-slot/slot operation.

First aspect of the embodiment

A method for configuring SPS is provided in the embodiment. The method is implemented at a network device as an example.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart which shows a method 200 for configuring SPS in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure, and illustrates the method for configuring SPS by taking a network device as an example.
As shown in Fig. 2, the method 200 includes determining, by a network device, semi-persistent scheduling configuration for a terminal device, at block 201. In this disclosure, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.
As shown in Fig. 2, the method 200 further includes transmitting, by the network device, the semi-persistent scheduling configuration to the terminal device, at block 202.
In an unclaimed example, the information on transmission or reception opportunity may include (such as explicitly or implicitly) one or more of the following time units: frame, subframe, OFDM symbol, transmission time interval (TTI). According to the embodiment, the information on transmission or reception opportunity include (such as explicitly or implicitly) one or more of the following time units: slot and/or mini-slot.
Information of transmission or reception opportunity may include the time duration and occurrence time.
The information of the transmission or reception opportunity occurrence time may be the start symbol and/or the start slot of the transmission or reception opportunity.
In an unclaimed example, a semi-persistent scheduling interval may include one of the following time units: frame, subframe, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval. A semi-persistent scheduling interval may include one of the following time units: slot, mini-slot.
However, it is not limited thereto, other time unit may be adopted in this disclosure. Next slot and/or mini-slot are used as the embodiment.
In the embodiment, the information on transmission or reception opportunity at least include information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration, that is, information on slot and/or mini-slot may be included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration. The slot and/or mini-slot may be defined by number of OFDM symbols of an indicated numerology.
In the embodiment, the information on slot and/or mini-slot is used to indicate the number of OFDM symbols in a slot and/or mini-slot.
Information on slot and/or mini-slot (also may be referred to as slot configuration) indicates the number of OFDM symbols in the slot/mini-slots when the slot and/or mini-slot may be defined by the number of OFDM symbols without numerology change, i.e., subcarrier space is not changed.
The information on slot and/or mini-slot may further be used to indicate numerology configuration over which the semi-persistent scheduling configuration is to be operated.
For example, the slot configuration may further indicate the numerology configuration over which the SPS configuration is to be operated when the slot/mini-slot is defined by switching to a different numerology. The numerology configuration means the sub-carrier spacing.
A time interval (may also be referred to as time unit) of the semi-persistent scheduling configuration may be a period of a transmission or reception opportunity occurrence.
For example, the time unit for the SPS period (semiPersistSchedIntervalUL or semiPersistSchedIntervalDL) configuration may be predefined to be a number of slot/mini-slot durations.
A transmission opportunity or reception opportunity of the semi-persistent scheduling configuration may be predefined or configured with a parameter; a set of transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configurations are predefined and the parameter is used to indicate an index of a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configuration.
For example, the time unit for the SPS period (semiPersistSchedIntervalUL or semiPersistSchedIntervalDL) configuration may be configured with an new parameter besides to be subframe duration, i.e. 1 ms. A set of time units may be predefined and the new parameter is used to indicate an index of the selected time unit.
The method may further include: determining a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index.
A transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity may be calculated based on one or more of a slot, mini-slot and OFDM symbol.
For example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for downlink within a semi-persistent scheduling period may be derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalDL] modulo (1024^∗X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, semiPersistSchedIntervalDL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the downlink, slot indicates the index of the subframe, slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
For another example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for uplink within a semi-persistent scheduling period may be derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedlIntervalUL + Slot_Offset ^∗ (N modulo 2)] modulo (1024 ^∗ X); where X is the total number of slots and/or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, Slot_Offset is a predefined value according to a radio frame or subframe structure, semiPersistSchedIntervalUL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the uplink, slot indicates the index of the subframe, slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
In this example, Slot_Offset may be predefined according to the radio frame/subframe structure considering the duplex, such as time division duplexing (TDD) or frequency division duplexing (FDD), and the UL/DL configuration of a radio frame or subframe.
The transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity may be calculated based on a subframe.
For example, the formulas as LTE may be reused to determine the subframe number within which the slot for data transmission is located. The index of the slot/mini-slot for data transmission within the determined subframe for data may be further indicated by either a slot index field in the downlink control information (DCI) for SPS configuration activation.
Alternativly, the index of the slot/mini-slot for data transmission within the determined subframe for data may be predefined in specification, e.g. always slot/mini_slot of index 0 in the determined subframe, or it can be predefined that the UE can determine the slot/mini-slot index within a subframe based on its C-RNTI, e.g., slot/mini-slot index = C-RNTI mod (number of slot/mini-slots in one subframe). According to this option, the SPS period (i.e. semiPersistSchedIntervalUL or semiPersistSchedIntervalDL) can be still countered in subframes.
Fig. 3 is another diagram which shows a method 300 for configuring SPS in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure, and illustrates the method for configuring SPS by taking a network device and a terminal device as an example. In Fig. 3, the network device is regarded as a transmitting apparatus and the terminal device is regarded as a receiving apparatus.
As shown in Fig. 3, the method 300 includes determining, by a network device, semi-persistent scheduling configuration for a terminal device, at block 301. In this disclosure, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.
As shown in Fig. 3, the method 300 further includes transmitting, by the network device, the semi-persistent scheduling configuration to the terminal device, at block 302.
As shown in Fig. 3, the method 300 may further include determining, by the network device, a transmission opportunity by using an index, at block 303.
As shown in Fig. 3, the method 300 may further include determining, by the terminal device, a reception opportunity by using an index, at block 304.
As shown in Fig. 3, the method 300 may further include transmitting, by the network device, data in the transmission opportunity, at block 305; and the terminal device may receive the data in the reception opportunity.
Fig. 4 is another diagram which shows a method 400 for configuring SPS in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure, and illustrates the method for configuring SPS by taking a network device as the embodiment and a terminal device as an example. In Fig .4, the terminal device is regarded as a transmitting apparatus and the network device is regarded as a receiving apparatus.
As shown in Fig. 4, the method 400 includes determining, by a network device, semi-persistent scheduling configuration for a terminal device, at block 401. In this disclosure, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.
As shown in Fig. 4, the method 400 further includes transmitting, by the network device, the semi-persistent scheduling configuration to the terminal device, at block 402.
As shown in Fig. 4, the method 400 may further include determining, by the terminal device, a transmission opportunity by using an index, at block 403.
As shown in Fig. 4, the method 400 may further include determining, by the network device, a reception opportunity by using an index, at block 404.
As shown in Fig. 4, the method 400 may further include transmitting, by the terminal device, data in the transmission opportunity, at block 405; and the network device may receive the data in the reception opportunity.
It should be appreciated that Figs. 3 and 4 are only examples of the disclosure, but it is not limited thereto. For example, the order of operations at blocks may be adjusted and/or some blocks may be omitted. Moreover, some blocks not shown in Figs. 3 and 4 may be added.
An index of a slot and/or mini-slot may be defined within a radio frame. For example, the slot index is defined within a radio frame, i.e. the slot index is within 0~X-1 within a radio frame when there are X slots within a radio frame (such as 10ms).
Fig. 5 is a diagram which shows slot indexing within a radio frame in accordance with an example.
An index of a slot and/or mini-slot may be defined within a subframe. For example, the slot index may be defined within a subframe, with index within 0~Y-1 when there are Y slots within a subframe.
Fig. 6 is a diagram which shows slot indexing within a subframe in accordance with an example.
It should be appreciated that only operations related to this disclosure are illustrated in some examples. For the sake of simplicity, detail description of other operations, such as encoding, symbol modulating, resource mapping, are not illustrated in this disclosure.
As can be seen from the above examples and the embodiment, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in SPS configuration when the network device configures the SPS for the terminal device. Therefore, SPS operation with multiple duration (such as slot and/or mini-slot) is enabled and there may be match between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmission occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe.

First aspect of an unclaimed example

A method for configuring SPS is provided in the embodiment. However, the method of an unclaimed example is implemented at a terminal device, and the same contents as those in the first aspect of the embodiment are omitted.
Fig. 7 is another flowchart which shows a method 700 for configuring SPS in accordance with an unclaimed example, and illustrates the method for configuring SPS by taking a terminal device as an example.
As shown in Fig. 7, the method 700 includes receiving, by a terminal device, semi-persistent scheduling configuration from a network device, at block 701. In this disclosure, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.
In the unclaimed example, the information on transmission or reception opportunity may include one or more of the following time units: frame, subframe, slot, mini-slot, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval.
In the unclaimed example, a semi-persistent scheduling interval may include (such as explicitly or implicitly) one of the following time units: frame, subframe, slot, mini-slot, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval.
In the unclaimed example, information on slot and/or mini-slot may be included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and the slot and/or mini-slot may be defined by number of OFDM symbols of an indicated numerology.
For example, the information on slot and/or mini-slot may be used to indicate the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols in a slot and/or mini-slot. For another example, the information on slot and/or mini-slot may further be used to indicate numerology configuration over which the semi-persistent scheduling configuration is to be operated.
In the unclaimed example, a time interval of the semi-persistent scheduling configuration may be a period of a transmission or reception opportunity occurrence. Alternatively, a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity of the semi-persistent scheduling configuration may be predefined or be configured with a parameter; a set of transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configurations are predefined and the parameter is used to indicate an index of a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configuration.
As shown in Fig. 7, the method 700 may include determining, by the terminal device, a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index, at block 702.
In the unclaimed example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity may be calculated based on one or more of a slot, mini-slot and OFDM symbol.
For example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for downlink within a semi-persistent scheduling period may be derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalDL] modulo (1024^∗X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, semiPersistSchedIntervalDL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the downlink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
For another example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for uplink within a semi-persistent scheduling period may be derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalUL + Slot_Offset ^∗ (N modulo 2)] modulo (1024 ^∗ X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, Slot_Offset is a predefined value according to a radio frame or subframe structure, semiPersistSchedIntervalUL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the uplink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
In the unclaimed example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity may be calculated based on a subframe.
For example, an index of the slot or mini-slot for data transmission within the subframe may be indicated by downlink control information to activate the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, or is predefined.
In the unclaimed example, an index of a slot and/or mini-slot may be defined within a radio frame or within a subframe.
As can be seen from the above embodiment and unclaimed example, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in SPS configuration when the network device configures the SPS for the terminal device. Therefore, SPS operation with multiple duration (such as slot and/or mini-slot) is enabled and there may be match between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmission occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe.

Second aspect of the embodiment

An apparatus for configuring SPS is provided in the embodiment. The apparatus is configured in the network device 101, and the same contents as those in the first aspect of the embodiment are omitted.
FIG. 8 shows a block diagram of an apparatus 800 for configuring SPS in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure.
As shown in Fig. 8, the apparatus 800 may include: a configuration determining unit 801 configured to determine semi-persistent scheduling configuration for a terminal device; information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and a transmitting unit 802 configured to transmit the semi-persistent scheduling configuration to the terminal device.
As shown in Fig. 8, the apparatus 800 may further include: an opportunity determining unit 803 configured to determine a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index.
It should be appreciated that components included in the apparatus 800 correspond to the operations of the method 200. Therefore, all operations and features described above with reference to Fig. 2 are likewise applicable to the components included in the apparatus 800 and have similar effects. For the purpose of simplification, the details will be omitted.
It should be appreciated that the components included in the apparatus 800 may be implemented in various manners, including software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof.
In the embodiment, one or more units may be implemented using software and/or firmware, for example, machine-executable instructions stored on the storage medium. In addition to or instead of machine-executable instructions, parts or all of the components included in the apparatus 800 may be implemented, at least in part, by one or more hardware logic components.
For example, and without limitation, illustrative types of hardware logic components that can be used include Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Application-specific Standard Products (ASSPs), System-on-a-chip systems (SOCs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), and the like.
The apparatus 800 may be a part of a device. But it is not limited thereto, for example, the apparatus 800 may be the network device 101, other parts of the network device 101, such as transmitter and receiver, are omitted in the Fig. 8.
As can be seen from the above embodiment and unclaimed example, information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in SPS configuration when the network device configures the SPS for the terminal device. Therefore, SPS operation with multiple duration (such as slot and/or mini-slot) is enabled and there may be match between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmission occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe.

Second aspect of the unclaimed example

An apparatus for configuring SPS is provided in the unclaimed example. The apparatus may be configured in the terminal device 102, and the same contents as those in the first aspects of the embodiment and unclaimed example are omitted.
FIG. 9 shows a block diagram of an apparatus 900 for configuring SPS in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure.
As shown in the unclaimed example Fig. 9, the apparatus 900 includes: a receiving unit 901 configured to receive semi-persistent scheduling configuration from a network device; information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.
As shown in Fig. 9, the apparatus 900 may further include: an opportunity determining unit 902 configured to determine a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index.
It should be appreciated that components included in the apparatus 900 correspond to the operations of the method 700. Therefore, all operations and features described above with reference to Fig. 7 are likewise applicable to the components included in the apparatus 900 and have similar effects. For the purpose of simplification, the details will be omitted.
It should be appreciated that the components included in the apparatus 900 may be implemented in various manners, including software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof.
In the unclaimed example, one or more units may be implemented using software and/or firmware, for example, machine-executable instructions stored on the storage medium. In addition to or instead of machine-executable instructions, parts or all of the components included in the apparatus 900 may be implemented, at least in part, by one or more hardware logic components.
For example, and without limitation, illustrative types of hardware logic components that can be used include Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Application-specific Standard Products (ASSPs), System-on-a-chip systems (SOCs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), and the like.
The apparatus 900 may be a part of a device. But it is not limited thereto, for example, the apparatus 900 may be the terminal device 102, other parts of the terminal device 102, such as transmitter and receiver, are omitted in the Fig. 9.
As can be seen from the above embodiment and unclaimed example, information on transmission duration or reception duration is included in SPS configuration when the network device configures the SPS for the terminal device. Therefore, SPS operation with multiple duration (such as slot and/or mini-slot) is enabled and there may be match between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmission occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe.
Third aspect of the unclaimed embodiment
A communications system is provided, as shown in the example of Fig. 1, the communication system 100 includes a network device 101 configured to perform a method for configuring SPS according to the first aspect of the embodiment and a terminal device 102 configured to perform a method for configuring SPS according to the first aspect of the unclaimed example.
A device (such as a network device 101) is provided in the embodiment and a device (such as a terminal device 102) is provided in the unclaimed example, and the same contents as those in the first and second aspects of the embodiment and the unclaimed example are omitted.
FIG. 10 shows a simplified block diagram of a device 1000 that is suitable for implementing the embodiment of the present disclosure. It would be appreciated that the device 1000 may be implemented as at least a part of, for example, the network device 101 of the embodiment or the terminal device 102 of the unclaimed example.
Network device 101 may include processing circuitry, device readable medium, interface, user interface equipment, auxiliary equipment, power source, power delivery circuitry, and antenna. These components are depicted as single boxes located within a single larger box, and in some cases, contain additional boxes therein.
In practice however, a network device may include multiple different physical components that make up a single illustrated component (e.g., interface includes ports/terminals for coupling wires for a wired connection and radio front end circuitry for a wireless connection). As another example, network device may be a virtual network node. Similarly, network node may be composed of multiple physically separate components (e.g., a NodeB component and a RNC component, a BTS component and a BSC component, etc.), which may each have their own respective components.
In certain scenarios in which network device includes multiple separate components (e.g., BTS and BSC components), one or more of the separate components may be shared among several network nodes. For example, a single RNC may control multiple NodeB's. In such a scenario, each unique NodeB and RNC pair, may in some instances be considered a single separate network node. The network node may be configured to support multiple radio access technologies (RATs). Some components may be duplicated (e.g., separate device readable medium for the different RATs) and some components may be reused (e.g., the same antenna may be shared by the RATs).
As shown, the device 1000 includes a communicating means 1030 and a processing means 1050. The processing means 1050 includes a data processor (DP) 1010, a memory (MEM) 1020 coupled to the DP 1010. The communicating means 1030 is coupled to the DP 1010 in the processing means 1050. The MEM 1020 stores a program (PROG) 1040. The communicating means 1030 is for communications with other devices, which may be implemented as a transceiver for transmitting/receiving signals.
In the unclaimed example the device 1000 acts as a network device. The memory 1020 stores a plurality of instructions; and the processor 1010 coupled to the memory 1020 and configured to execute the instructions to: determine semi-persistent scheduling configuration for a terminal device; information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and transmit the semi-persistent scheduling configuration to the terminal device.
In the embodiment, the information on transmission or reception opportunity includes one or more of the following time units: slot and/or mini-slot. In the unclaimed example, the information on transmission or reception opportunity may include one or more of the following time units: frame, subframe, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval.
In the embodiment, a semi-persistent scheduling interval includes one of the following time units: slot and/or mini-slot. In an unclaimed example, a semi-persistent scheduling interval may include one of the following time units: frame, subframe, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval.
In the embodiment, information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and the information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration is used to indicate the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols in a slot and/or mini-slot.
The information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration may be further used to indicate numerology configuration over which the semi-persistent scheduling configuration is to be operated.
The slot and/or mini-slot may be defined by the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols of an indicated numerology.
The information on transmission or reception opportunity may include a time duration and occurrence time.
A transmission opportunity or reception opportunity of the semi-persistent scheduling configuration may be predefined or may be configured with a parameter; a set of transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configurations are predefined and the parameter is used to indicate an index of a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configuration.
The processor 1010 may be further configured to execute the instructions to: determine a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index.
The transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity may be calculated based on one or more of a slot, mini-slot and OFDM symbol.
The transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for downlink within a semi-persistent scheduling period may be derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalDL] modulo (1024^∗X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, semiPersistSchedIntervalDL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the downlink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
The transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for uplink within a semi-persistent scheduling period may be derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalUL + Slot_Offset ^∗ (N modulo 2)] modulo (1024 ^∗ X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, Slot_Offset is a predefined value according to a radio frame or subframe structure, semiPersistSchedIntervalUL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the uplink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
An index of the slot and/or mini-slot for data transmission within the subframe may be indicated by downlink control information to activate the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, or may be predefined when the transmission opportunity or reception opportunity is calculated based on a subframe.
An index of a slot and/or mini-slot may be defined within a radio frame or within a subframe.
In the unclaimed example the device 1000 acts as a terminal device. In the unclaimed example, the memory 1020 stores a plurality of instructions; and the processor 1010 coupled to the memory 1020 and configured to execute the instructions to: receive semi-persistent scheduling configuration from a network device; information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration.
In the unclaimed example, the information on transmission or reception opportunity may include one or more of the following time units: frame, subframe, slot, mini-slot, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval.
In the unclaimed example, a semi-persistent scheduling interval may include one of the following time units: frame, subframe, slot, mini-slot, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, transmission time interval.
In the unclaimed example, information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration is included in the semi-persistent scheduling configuration; and the information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration is used to indicate the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols in a slot and/or mini-slot.
In the unclaimed example, the information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration is further used to indicate numerology configuration over which the semi-persistent scheduling configuration is to be operated.
In the unclaimed example, the slot and/or mini-slot may be defined by number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols of an indicated numerology.
In the unclaimed example, the information on transmission or reception opportunity includes a time duration and occurrence time.
In the unclaimed example, a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity of the semi-persistent scheduling configuration is predefined or is configured with a parameter; a set of transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configurations are predefined and the parameter is used to indicate an index of a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configuration.
In the unclaimed example, the processor 1010 is further configured to execute the instructions to: determine a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index.
In the unclaimed example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity is calculated based on one or more of a slot, mini-slot and OFDM symbol.
In the unclaimed example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for downlink within a semi-persistent scheduling period is derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalDL] modulo (1024^∗X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, semiPersistSchedIntervalDL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the downlink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
In the unclaimed example, the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for uplink within a semi-persistent scheduling period is derived based on the following formula: (X ^∗ SFN + slot) = [(X ^∗ SFN_{start time} + slot_{start time}) + N ^∗ semiPersistSchedIntervalUL + Slot_Offset ^∗ (N modulo 2)] modulo (1024 ^∗ X); where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, Slot_Offset is a predefined value according to a radio frame or subframe structure, semiPersistSchedIntervalUL indicates the semi-persistent scheduling interval in the uplink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
In the unclaimed example, an index of the slot and/or mini-slot for data transmission within the subframe is indicated by downlink control information to activate the semi-persistent scheduling configuration, or is predefined when the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity is calculated based on a subframe.
In the unclaimed example, an index of a slot and/or mini-slot is defined within a radio frame or within a subframe.
The PROG 1040 is assumed to include program instructions that, when executed by the associated DP 1010, enable the device 1000 to operate in accordance with the embodiment of the present disclosure, as discussed herein with the method 400 of the embodiment or 700 of the unclaimed example. The embodiment herein may be implemented by computer software executable by the DP 1010 of the device 1000, or by hardware, or by a combination of software and hardware. A combination of the data processor 1010 and MEM 1020 may form processing means 1050 adapted to implement the embodiment of the present disclosure.
The MEM 1020 may be of any type suitable to the local technical environment and may be implemented using any suitable data storage technology, such as semiconductor based memory devices, magnetic memory devices and systems, optical memory devices and systems, fixed memory and removable memory, as non-limiting examples. While only one MEM is shown in the device 1000, there may be several physically distinct memory modules in the device 1000. The DP 1010 may be of any type suitable to the local technical environment, and may include one or more of general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and processors based on multicore processor architecture, as non-limiting examples. The device 1000 may have multiple processors, such as an application specific integrated circuit chip that is slaved in time to a clock which synchronizes the main processor.
Generally, the embodiment of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects may be implemented in hardware, while other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing devices. While aspects of the embodiment of the present disclosure are illustrated and described as block diagrams, flowcharts, or using some other pictorial representation, it will be appreciated that the blocks, apparatus, systems, techniques or methods described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
By way of example, the embodiment of the present disclosure can be described in the general context of machine-executable instructions, such as those included in program modules, being executed in a device on a target real or virtual processor. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, libraries, objects, classes, components, data structures, or the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The functionality of the program modules may be combined or split between program modules as desired in the embodiment. Machine-executable instructions for program modules may be executed within a local or distributed device. In a distributed device, program modules may be located in both local and remote storage media.
Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. These program codes may be provided to a processor or controller of a general-purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program codes, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions/operations specified in the flowcharts and/or block diagrams to be implemented. The program code may execute entirely on a machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.
The above program code may be embodied on a machine-readable medium, which may be any tangible medium that may contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. The machine-readable medium may be a machine-readable signal medium or a machine-readable storage medium. The machine-readable medium may include but not limited to an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
More specific examples of the machine-readable storage medium would include an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random-access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
In the context of this disclosure, the device may be implemented in the general context of computer system-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer system. Generally, program modules may include routines, programs, objects, components, logic, data structures, and so on that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The device may be practiced in distributed cloud computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed cloud computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote computer system storage media including memory storage devices.

Claims

A method (200, 300, 400) in a network device (101, 800, 1000), comprising:
determining (201, 301, 401) semi-persistent scheduling, SPS, configuration for a terminal device (102); wherein information on transmission or reception opportunity for the SPS configuration i) is comprised in the SPS configuration and ii) at least comprises information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration; and

transmitting (202, 302, 402) the SPS configuration to the terminal device;

wherein the information on transmission or reception opportunity i) comprises one or more of the following time units: slot, mini-slot and ii) is used to indicate the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbols in a slot and/or mini-slot.
The method according to claim 1, wherein an SPS interval is configured in number of the following time units: slot, mini-slot.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the information on slot and/or mini-slot configuration is further used to indicate numerology configuration over which the SPS configuration is to be operated.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the slot and/or mini-slot are/is defined by number of OFDM symbols of an indicated numerology.
The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity of the SPS configuration is predefined or is configured with a parameter; wherein a set of transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configurations are predefined and the parameter is used to indicate an index of a transmission opportunity or reception opportunity configuration.
The method according to any of claims 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprising:
determining a transmission opportunity or a reception opportunity by using an index.
The method according to claim 6, wherein the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity is calculated based on one or more of a slot, mini-slot and OFDM symbol.
The method according to claim 7, wherein the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for downlink within an SPS period is derived based on the following formula: $(X * SFN + slot) = [\begin{array}{l} (X * {SFN}_{start time} + {slot}_{start time}) + N * semiPersistSchedIn - \\ tervalDL \end{array}] modulo (1024 * X);$
where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, semiPersistSchedIntervalDL indicates the SPS interval in the downlink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
The method according to claim 7, wherein the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity for uplink within an SPS period is derived based on the following formula: $(X * SFN + slot) = [\begin{array}{l} (X * {SFN}_{start time} + {slot}_{start time}) + N * semiPersistSchedIn - \\ tervalUL + Slot_Offset * (N modulo 2) \end{array}] modulo (1024 * X);$
where X is the total number of slots or mini-slots in a radio frame, SFN indicates system frame number, Slot_Offset is a predefined value according to a radio frame or subframe structure, semiPersistSchedIntervalUL indicates the SPS interval in the uplink, slot indicates the index of the slot or mini-slot, N indicates the index of the transmission opportunity or the reception opportunity.
The method according to claim 6, wherein an index of the slot and/or mini-slot for data transmission within the subframe is indicated by downlink control information to activate the SPS configuration, or is predefined when the transmission opportunity or reception opportunity is calculated based on a subframe.
The method according to claim 6, wherein an index of a slot and/or mini-slot is defined within a radio frame or within a subframe.
A network device (101, 800, 1000), comprising a processor (1010) and a memory (1020), wherein the memory containing instructions executable by the processor whereby the network device is operative to perform a method according to any of claims 1 to 11.
A computer program product (1040) being tangibly stored on a computer readable storage medium (1020) and including instructions which, when executed on a processor (1010) of a network device (101, 800, 1000), cause the network device to perform a method according to any of claims 1 to 11.